Jasmine is a Software Engineer who likes to write, code, paint, make music, and ride her bicycle.
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- How to show a formatted preview on a nextjs blogRead more →
One thing I really wanted was to be able to show a list of the first initial posts fully expanded or at least with a decent preview.
When I had tried gatsby, I could only get a description by duplicating the content from the start of the post and putting it in a 'description' field. This would then also lose all its formatting and look unprofessional.
One way I had kind of got it working was to simply paginate the homepage and show the first 6-10 posts in full. But this meant that if some were especially long they would clog up the homepage.
- Drafting your Notes into Finished WritingRead more →
Do you find editing the hardest part of writing?
When the initial burst of creativity wears off, do you feel like you’re trapped in a soul-sucking slog? Or forever stuck three-quarters of the way finished?
I’ve been doing a lot of writing recently, and it’s been HARD. Way harder than I thought it would be to take my pile of notes and edit them into something I judged a finished product.
I continued to persevere and came up with a process I’ve been using to make things easier and more intuitive. Having this ‘map’ gives me a sense of progress as to where I am with putting my writing together. It makes me confident I have a wide range of tools in my toolbox whenever I get stuck.
- Fix error: The engine node is incompatible with this moduleRead more →
I ran into this error when I was working through the nextjs blog tutorial while trying to switch over from
npmtoyarn.Console output after running
yarn install: - Emojis in VS Code!
Pressing
cmd+ctrl+spacedoesn't always work for me in my current VS code setup.However when looking around for a solution to the issue, I noticed this plugin!
Now I can press
:and it gives me autocomplete and a visual preview just like it does in Slack!🤸 🥳 🎊 🔥 🧑🚒